An app called LG Call, that allows LG smartwatch owners to dial a phone number, then take the call on their smartphone, was released today onto Google Play. Unfortunately, in the app’s description, LG does not state specifically that this app is only usable by Watch Urbane owners, and this has apparently upset quite a few G Watch R and G Watch owners.

Nevertheless, for all of you Watch Urbane owners, you can access your contacts straight from the watch, then place a call. If the number you need is not already saved, you can input it into a dial pad on the watch, then have the phone call on your smartphone. It’s not a revolutionary concept, but it does exist now.

In the future, we could see this be made available for other LG-made smartwatches, and it’s quite possible that LG is only testing its usability on the small marketshare of Watch Urbane owners first before opening it to everybody.

Did you order a Watch Urbane? We did, and as soon as it gets here, you can expect a hands-on video.

seems useless , you have to use your phone anyway so way waste time dialing it on a watch

Alexandr Slobodchikov

I use it with a Bluetooth headset because voice dialing does not work cleanly for me for some reason (often call a wrong number). Also I don’t like persuade my phone to make a call in a public place with my voice. I want simple choose a contact from the list When the phone is hidden under outer clothing (winter) or in a bag it’s very convenient to make call with watch (as for me).

JimmyHACK

Main problem here is that the Android Wear app features this as the main app for g watch r.

TR1

Why would you want to dial a number on a tiny watch screen just to pick up your phone and start talking? This is beyond stupid.

Alexandr Slobodchikov

I use it with a Bluetooth headset because voice dialing does not work cleanly for me for some reason (often call a wrong number). Also I don’t like persuade my phone to make a call in a public place with my voice. I want simple choose a contact from the list When the phone is hidden under outer clothing (winter) or in a bag it’s very convenient to make call with watch (as for me)

yankeesusa

If Huawei can match the battery life or beat it and match the price or beat it, it will outsell the urbane by a lot. I think it looks better and i see that as a better upgrade to my moto 360 besides waiting for the next moto.

So instead of taking my phone out and dialing, I dial on my watch and then take out my phone anyway?

yankeesusa

LOL. That is so true. What would be cool is an app that will let you talk into your watch and then you hear the person on the speaker of your phone. That wouldn’t be too bad. It would be great in certain situations and allow the watches without a speakerphone to be used that way.

I love the reviews on Google Play. There are at least 400 people who don’t read descriptions for apps before they download them. lolz

chickenfactory

I actually find this useless for the most part. Now if the watch had a small speaker and used the mics to talk, then it would make more sense. As the watch is now, I might as well dial on my phone since I will have to use my phone to talk anyways

CoreRooted

Unless you are using a BT headset (which quite a few people do in tandem with their watches.

I don’t find that useful… voice controls are fine… calling by the watch may be useful sometimes, but it will be useful IF and ONLY IF you can talk from your wrist, in which case you’ll be better off with voice controls…

That being said it doesn’t hurt to have it…

NexusMan

Why would you want to do this?

jeesung

That’s not already a standard voice command?

John Whitehead

You mean that I can now put a middle man into making a phone call! Awesome. It was really hard for me to actually dial the phone while it was on my desk. This will really streamline my life.

Pavel Lukyanchykov

As a G Watch R owner I’m not upset. The app is useless.

TC Infantino

I just like how the dialer looks like an old rotary phone. It would be very cool to have to touch the number, and then drag it around to a set point for each number you dial. Ah, nostalgia, I remember when I was into nostalgia.

MicroNix

Can it have a party line too?

Shawn Spring

EXCELLENT use of a Supernatural reference here.

undercoverduck

I hope LG ships Destiel

undercoverduck

Ok they most definetly do bc I think it’s a reference to Dean Winchester calling/praying for Cas, and Dean is in his favourites list so…

As a LG G Watch owner I wouldn’t have gotten pissed with LG if the app wasn’t Recommended on the Wear app….

IDK if it was Google’s fault or LG’s but it did piss me off that either company promoted an app that didn’t work on my watch

redbar0n11

…..Bbeeeccaauusseeeeee Ok Google voice prompts aren’t good enough?? It would be much faster to just say it, than try to type it accurately AFTER getting the app open. #FAIL?

Alexandr Slobodchikov

I use it with a Bluetooth headset because voice dialing does not work cleanly for me for some reason (often call a wrong number). Also I don’t like persuade my phone to make a call in a public place with my voice. I want simple choose a contact from the list When the phone is hidden under outer clothing (winter) or in a bag it’s very convenient to make call with watch.

Mike Aurin

I love getting notifications FROM my phone to my watch but there very few things I want to do TO my phone FROM my watch, if that makes any sense.

So if you have a bluetooth headset on, you wouldn’t want to be able to initiate calls from your watch without needing to use your phone?

Mike Aurin

No. Your interpretation is way off. I love the fact that I can look at my watch and say “Call so and so” and it’ll dial and I take the call on my phone but you would never convince me that scrolling through a call log, or worse, dialing a new number will ever be easier on my smart watch then just skipping the middle man and taking out my phone.

MicroNix

That’s the way I feel about the entire watch smartphone thing. If the watch relies on the smartphone which has to be with you anyway, then I find the smart watches a complete waste of time and even more so, money. Once a smart watch can essentially have a cellular radio in it and has enough compute power to do what a smart phone does today, then maybe someone will convince me these are useful.

It’s a lot more convenient. Just as an example, say you are standing on a bus or subway, walking down a crowded street, or driving a car. If you get a notification, you can’t easily pull out your phone to see what it is without a high chance of dropping it. With your watch, just a quick flick of your wrist and it tells you what that was, if it was a spam email you can ignore it or if it was your friend telling you they are running 15 minutes late, you don’t even need to interact with it. It’s not a replacement for your phone, it’s really just a quick way to get brief information without having to stop and take out your phone.

Mike Aurin

You’ve completely missed the point of smart watch EXTENSIONS if you want your watch to have the computing power and separate cell radios. You’re also asking to do things on a 1.5 inch screen…